New York · Nonprofit
MicrobeTV Inc
MicrobeTV Inc (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,084 to it, the largest being THE DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $949k
- Net assets
- $807k
What MicrobeTV Inc does
Mission
MicrobeTV creates podcast content by scientists. We believe that education should be free. It is our mission to provide accurate, accessible science education to everyone. Our programs focus on the life sciences and include virology, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious diseases, and more. In 2023 MicrobeTV produced and uploaded 345 science videos which were viewed 2.6 million times on YouTube, including videos of the podcasts: This Week in Virology, This Week in Parasitism, This Week in Microbiology, Immune, This Week in Neuroscience, Infectious Disease Podcast, Beyond the Noise, Matters Microbial, Office Hours, Q&A with A&V, and 25 virology lectures. The Organization's YouTube channel currently has 133,000 subscribers and has produced 238 audio-only versions of This Week in Virology, This Week in Parasitism, This Week in Microbiology, Immune, This Week in Neuroscience, Infectious Disease Podcast, and Matters Microbial.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, MicrobeTV produced and uploaded 419 science videos viewed over 1.5 million times, including videos of the podcasts This Week in Virology (110), This Week in Parasitism (16), This Week in Microbiology (13), Immune (20), This Week in Neuroscience (10), Infectious Disease Podcast (10), Beyond the Noise (39), Matters Microbial (49), This Week in Evolution (10), 25 virology lectures, and 43 live-streamed episodes of Office Hours. The Organization's YouTube channel has 143,000 subscribers. MicrobeTV also produced 346 audio-only episodes, which were collectively downloaded over 3.8 million times. Since its formation, the team has grown to include scientific experts that contribute regularly to help make MicrobeTV one of the most respected platforms for science information allowing communities around the world to gain insight into the world of virology, microbiology, parasitology, and more.
$405,677 spent$327,466 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $405,677.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $549k to $1.2M (+110%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
89% of MicrobeTV Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $324k → $532k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MicrobeTV Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MicrobeTV Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 93% · 2023 94% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of MicrobeTV Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MicrobeTV Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MicrobeTV Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MicrobeTV Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MicrobeTV Inc?
- MicrobeTV Inc (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $949,084 to it, the largest being THE DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MicrobeTV Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $949,084 in grants to MicrobeTV Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MicrobeTV Inc?
- THE DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MicrobeTV Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing